Longlist

We’re thrilled to announce this year’s longlist of 20 stories for The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2017. The longlist was chosen from 102 submissions received during our inaugural campaign.

Stories on this year’s longlist include (in alphabetical order):

A Peculiar Circle by Matthew Rhodes

An Evening Out by Asha Krishna

Aunty by C. G. Menon

Blackbird by Maureen Cullen

Cinnamon Fletcher by Jon Wilkins

Deadly by Simon Bland

Death and Biscuits by Bev Haddon

Five by Lynne E. Blackwood

Inside out by Farrah Yusuf

L’ile des Somnambules by Chad Bentley

Metropolis by Marianne Whiting

Real Love by Jack Wedgbury

Suicide Vending Machine by Thomas Welsh

Switching off the Metronome by Siobhan Logan

The Chase by Amy Bell

The Child Kingdom by Andrew Moffat

The Man Who Wasn’t by Karl Quiqley

The Pink Feather Boa Incident by Katherine Hetzel

We Went There by Debz Hobbs-Wyatt

Where to Stay, What to Do by Lindsey Fairweather

All the stories featured on our longlist will be published in our prize anthology. A shortlist will now be selected by our esteemed judging panel, including writers Rebecca Burns, Divya Ghelani, Nina Stibbe, and Grace Haddon as well as bookseller, Debbie James.